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Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi. -- Sathya Sai Baba
In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action. -- Jerry Pournelle
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Both Marx and Christ agree that in this life, a right action is consideration for the welfare of others. -- Gore Vidal
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Right action tends to be defined in terms of general individual rights and standards that have been critically examined and agreed upon by the whole society. -- Lawrence Kohlberg
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. -- Saskya Pandita
What effect am I having on this world? I'm not sure yet. I have my worries, doubts and fears, but the way I'm trying to affect the world is with positive, right action. -- Robert Gossett
As exercise is necessary to the development of physical muscle, so development of the moral nature is accomplished through temptation. The soul being given choice, may exercise it in whatever direction it chooses, for it learns just as well by its mistakes as by right action in the first place, perhaps even better. -- Max Heindel
Nature supports right action. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Right attitudes produces right action -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The best politics is right action. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Action that is clearly right needs no justification. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Everyone has a right to his own course of action. -- Moliere
And right action is freedom From past and future also. -- T. S. Eliot
Take the best action toward your most important goal right now. -- David Viscott
Patience in the mind and dynamism in action is the right formula. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action. -- Abraham Verghese
Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action. -- Charles William Eliot
The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it. -- Seneca the Younger
Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Right motives give pinions to thought, and strength and freedom to speech and action. -- Mary Baker Eddy
The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action. -- George Eliot
It is not the right advice that liberates, but the action based on it. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness. -- Alberto Villoldo
The purpose of information is not knowledge. It is being able to take the right action. -- Peter Drucker
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. -- Ryan Holiday
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favourable do nothing. -- William Feather
Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears. -- Barbara Deming
Wisdom always waits for the right time to act, while emotion always pushes for action right now! -- Joyce Meyer
Faith alone is never enough. You must follow up with the right effective plan and strategic action. -- Edmond Mbiaka
If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul. -- Anthony D. Williams
I've been asked to do action-oriented movies in the past and they just haven't been right for me. -- Guy Pearce
Leadership is the art of invoking wisdom and right action out of the people needed to accomplish the goal. -- Sandy Smith
Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation. -- Brad Warner
To wish for change will change nothing; To make the decision to take action right now will change everything. -- Nick Vujicic
I choose bold. I choose action. I choose what's right for the people. I choose to make a difference. -- Bill Richardson
Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves. -- Kim Stanley Robinson
Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is. -- Jason Statham
It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project. -- Zac Efron
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher. -- Idries Shah
Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. -- Henry George
Repeat the same action over and over again, and eventually it will feel right. Eventually, there isn't even any guilt. -- Jodi Picoult
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself. -- Laozi
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. -- Charlemagne
You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you. -- Chris Menges
Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Consistency with the right strategic plan is the ultimate key to success. Yesterday's action would never make up for today's procrastination. -- Edmond Mbiaka
Love as Thought is Truth. Love as Action is Right Conduct. Love as Understanding is Peace. Love as Feeling is Non-violence. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The key to success is being in the right place at the right time, recognizing that you are there, and taking action! -- Ray Kroc
He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem. -- Jules Verne
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take. -- James Callaghan
A leader, once convinced that a particular course of action is the right one, must....be undaunted when the going gets tough. -- Ronald Reagan
Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness, right contemplation. -- Gautama Buddha
The whole world is incapable of judging either right or wrong. but it is certain that actionless action can judge both right and wrong. -- Zhuangzi
Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all. -- Jodi Picoult
An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. -- Lion Feuchtwanger
Switching to all organic food production is the single most critical (and most doable) action we can take right now to stop our climate crisis. -- Maria Rodale
It is love alone that leads to right action. What brings order in the world is to love and let love do what it will. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Having the right to happiness means having the right to earn it, not having it given to you without effort and action on your part. -- Jillian Michaels
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that. -- William Kingdon Clifford
That which does not correspond to the truth or to the moral norm possesses, objectively, no right either to existence or to propagation or to action. -- Pope Pius XII
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock. -- Queen Elizabeth II
When we judge, we create negative karma. When we say of an action: 'This is right,' or, 'That is wrong,' we create negative karma. -- Gary Zukav
Right now, there are nearly 30 jobs bills passed by the House with support from both Republicans and Democrats that are awaiting action in the Democratic-run Senate. -- Nan Hayworth
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. -- Aristotle
Be still and quiet, tune in with the Infinite Intelligence, and continue in right thought, right feeling, and right action, and you will arrive at your goal. -- Joseph Murphy
The angels may have wider spheres of action, may have nobler forms of duty; but right with them and with us is one and the same thing. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Christina Ricci is amazing, the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action, she's right there. -- Lisa Kudrow
If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes. -- Saskya Pandita
I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons. -- Libba Bray
Trying to get stuff straight right at the end when you never cared all through your life. Trying to get into heaven on the affirmative action plan. -- Leonard Pitts Jr.
Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. -- Indira Gandhi
Right now I belong to the wonderful organization called The Children's Action Network. The first thing we did was immunize 200,000 children across the country against childhood diseases. -- Henry Winkler
When we respond to threats immediately and take action right away, it's usually the threats that we're hard-wired to respond to, the kinds of things that our ancestors survived. -- Al Gore
Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional. -- Ernest Sosa
We have no right to dictate, through irresponsible action or narrow-mindedness, the future of our children, and our children's children. There has been enough destruction, enough death, enough waste. -- Abdallah II
As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going? -- Jacques Chirac
Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier. -- David Allen
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines. -- Herbert Spencer
There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate - when a particular course of action just feels right. -- Tim Cook
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I was lucky to be in the right place at the right time. But many others were also in the same place. The difference was that I took action. -- Bill Gates
Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I won't sacrifice my characters morals/intentions/motives for the sake of what I believe is right or wrong. If the action fits the character it will be written. That's that. -- James DeSantis
Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays. -- Aldo Leopold
...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Whatever your conscious mind assumes and believes to be true, your subconscious mind will accept and bring to pass. Believe in good fortune, divine guidance, right action, and all the blessings of life. -- Joseph Murphy
I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace. -- Peace Pilgrim

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